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No. 824,068. PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED B EPT. 11, 1905.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JASPER L. DODGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and'useful Improvement in Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in beds, and more particularly to an improvement in means for detachably securing the bed-bottom to the frame of thebed.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of beds or bedsteads whereby the elastic bottom of the bed may be quickly secured to the bed-frame under tension and readily detached from the bedframe, when it may be rolled up for carrying with details of construction, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved bed,

I showing the elastic bed-bottom secured to the brackets on the side rails of the bedframe and the means for stretching the bedbottom over the brackets. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional plan view taken on line X X of Fig. 1, showing the means for securing the bed-bottom to the brackets. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view looking at the inner face of one of the brackets, showing the means for securing the bracket to the side rail of the bed-frame and the means for securing the bed-bottom to the bracket, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the tool used for stretching the bed-bottom over the brackets. In the drawings, a indicates the headboard; b, the footboard; c c, the side rails; d d, the brackets; e, the bed-bottom of my improved bed, and f, the tool used for stretching the bed-bottom e over the brackets d. The brackets d (1 each have the hook-shaped upper end d and the hole (1 adjacent the' hook-sha ed end. Thesebrackets are shaped to extend above the side rails c c and are secured to the side rails at the head and foot of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 11, 1905. Serial No. 277,924.

Patented June 19, 1906.

I the bed by the screws d (1 as shown in Figls. e

1 and 3. The bed-bottom e consists in t preferred form of aplurality of coiled springs interlaced or woven to ether and secured at their ends (in any wel known way) to the bars e e in the ends of which are the holes 6' 6 as shown in Fig. 2. These holes e e are shaped to receive, the hook-shaped u per 60 ends (1 d of the brackets and the end 0 the stretching-tool f, which has the offset-pin f,

adapted to enter a hole d in abracket and form a pivot 0r fulcrum for the tool.

The bed-bottom e is quickly secured\to the brackets d d by placing one of the bars e over the brackets at the head of the bed, with the hook-shaped upperends (1 d of the brackets extending through the holes e e in the bar, as shown in Fi s. 2 and 3. The end of the tool f, having t e pin f, is now inserted in succession through the holes 6 e of the bar e at the foot of the bed and the pin f on the tool inserted in the hole d in the bracket, bringing I the tool f into the position as shown in-broken 7 5 lines in Fig. l. The tool f is now forced over toward the footboard 1) into the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1 and, acting as a lever on the bar 6, stretches the bed-bottom and draws the bar over the brackets into a osition for the hook-shaped end. of the rackets to enterthe holes in the bar. The

'tool f is now removed, leaving the bed-bottom firmly secured to the brackets under the required tension. The bed-bottom may 8 5 be readily removed from the brackets by reversing these operations and left flat or rolled up into a comparatively small package for carrying or packin purposes.

It is evident that the bed-bottom proper may be constructed of any elastic fabric such as wire slprings, canvas, or webbingandsecured to t e end bars e 0 without materially affecting the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In combination with the side rails of a bed, a bracket secured adjacent each end of each rail and each embodying a hook-shaped upper end with an aperture disposed to the rear of'said upper end and below the same, an

elastic bed-bottom having bars attached to its ends with elongated apertures formed adjacent the ends of the bars and being of In testimony whereof I have signed my greater length than the Width of said hookname to this specification in the presence of shaped bracket ends, to permit a Wrench to two subscribing Witnesses.

be received in said elongated apertures and JASPER L. DODGE. 5 to engage in the bracket-aperture to enable Witnesses:

said bars to become engaged over said hook- JOHN Q. BRADISH,

shaped ends. J A. MILLER. 

